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President Mahinda Rajapaksa is expected to make a three-day visit to Jaffna on the invitation of Douglas Devananda, Jaffna Electoral District MP and the Minister of Traditional Industries and Small Enterprise Development.

'Asian Tribune' has learnt through its sources in Saudi Arabia that Saudi Arabia has revoked the suspension on the execution of Sri Lanka’s housemaid Rizana Nafeek and it has now become imminent that she will be executed anytime, despite appeals and prayers of 20 million Sri Lankans and sympathizers all over the world including Saudi Arabia.

The wife of Mr. Abdul Qader Al Mashoor Moulana - a Saudi National, who lives in Riyadh, met yesterday evening with Mr.& Mrs Naif Jiziyan Khalaf Al-Otaibi, who are the parents of the 4 month old Saudi boy who died in the hands of Rizana Nafeek, the Sri Lankan Housemaid while bottle-feeding on 22 May 2005.

President Mahinda Rajapaksa in a request sent to the King of Saudi Arabia on the 5th January has sought the release the Lankan maid Rizana Nafeek who faces death sentence in Saudi jail on charges of murdering an infant boy while bottle-feeding, states a release from the Department of Government Information of the Ministry of Mass Media and In formation.

The Party Leaders meeting is to be held today morning with the Speaker of the Parliament Chamal Rajapaksa presiding to decide on holding parliamentary sessions on 10th and 11th of this month to take up the impeachment motion against the Shirani Bandaranaike, the Chief Justice.

Flying in face of the ban on revealing the identity of the Delhi braveheart, who succumbed to injuries sustained fighting six rapists, her father Badri Singh Pandey has given the permission to reveal her name: Jyoti Singh Pandey.